AMATHVSIIN^. 20S 



STICHOPHTHALMA CAMADEVA (Plate 158, figs. 1, la, cJ ? ). 



Morpho (Thaumantis) Camculeva, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Entomology, p. 9, pi. 4, figs. 1, 2 



(1848). 

 Thaumantis Camadeva, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 18.56, p. 177 ; id. Doubleday and Hewitson. 



Gen. D. Lep. p. 377, pi. 55, fig. 2 (1851). 

 Stichophtlialma Camadeva, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 309, fig. ? (1883). 



Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 204, pi. 65, ^ (1887) ; id. ii. p. 184, pi. 30 (1889). 



Imago. — Male. TJpperside. Foreioing ^{h. the basal area rich ochreous-brown, 

 the outer area purpurescent lilacine-grey, and traversed by a discal series of small 

 round blackish spots, followed by a row of quadrate sagittate-spots, which latter 

 have their outer angle dilated and extending along the vein to the margin, and then 

 by a submarginal row of continuous lunules, the upper end of each series being 

 broadly dilated at the apex. Hindioingw\\h the basal area rich dark ochreous-brown, 

 the outer area purpurescent -black, traversed by a submarginal row of large broad pur- 

 purescent lilacine-grey biconical spots, and a marginal narrow lunular band ; basal 

 glandular tuft pale ochreous. Cilia pale ochreous. Underside rich brownish-ochreous ; 

 crossed by a subbasal and a medial slender black sinuous line, the former generally 

 being inwardly-bordered by pale olivescent-ochreous, and the latter outwardly-bor- 

 dered by a whitish fascia, followed by a dark brown speckled-edged lunular fascia ; 

 the disc crossed by a row of red ocelli, five on each wing, each being centred with a 

 white lunule, and having a black outer ring ; beyond are two submarginal ill-defined 

 brown lines, the outer line sometimes being more or less broad, and both ending at 

 the anal angle in a black speckled streak, the outer streak much dilated. Body 

 beneath, legs, and palpi brownish-ochreous ; antenna dark brown. 



Female. TJpperside as in the male, with the marginal markings broader. Un- 

 derside as in the male. 



Expanse, 5 to 6 inches. 



Habitat. — Sikkim ; Assam ; Khasia Hills ; Cachar ; Manipur. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — "Common in Sikkim, in June and July" (Mr. de Niceville, J. A. S. 

 Bengal, 1885, 2). Mr. Elwes (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 333) records it as not uncommon, 

 in Sikkim, in suitable locahties, from May or June to October. I found it not un- 

 common by the river at Choongtong, at 2500 feet, in July, but difficult to take in 

 good condition, as it flies so close to the ground among thick vegetation that it is 

 not easy to get a clear stroke of the net." Major H. H. Godwin- Austen — who 

 captured several specimens in the Jatinga Valley, N. Cachar Hills, during his Survey 

 operations — noted that " it affects the openings in forests ; having a lopping lazy sort 

 of flight, flying about quite low down among the brushwood, during April, just after 

 the rains set in." Mr. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 353), found it " very 

 common in the forests near Silcuri in Cachar, during May ; others also being taken 



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